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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.


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Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.
SIMONIDES Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
SIMONIDES Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech
SIMONIDES Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Painting is poetry in pictures as music is poetry in notes.
LEAH DANCEL Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...
WILLIAM BLAKE Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions ...
AVIJEET DAS There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative ...
RAFAEL MONEO Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close t...
ETEL ADNAN To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that bot...
SUSAN VREELAND The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of de...
KILROY J. OLDSTER A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry ...
JOYCE CAREY A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry ...
LORD BYRON Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are m...
VIGGO MORTENSEN Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or p...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or ph...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, conte...
BILLY COLLINS When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can...
DENIS DIDEROT Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the pass...
EDMUND BURKE None of these worlds was incompatible. All of these people were around, and if you were at all inter...
JAMES TENNEY Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, inno...
LEON BLACK I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings an...
VIGGO MORTENSEN A great painting is a great painting.
LARRY POONS You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats th...
RICK RIORDAN There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquen...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the audit...
STEVEN PINKER Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspi...
DAVID JOSIAH BREWER The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
JOSHUA LOGAN I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems t...
KENNETH KOCH Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZAC Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
P...
KAMAND KOJOURI Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
AJAY NAIDU I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy...
JOHN ADAMS If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
JOYCE CAROL OATES Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in...
WALLACE STEVENS Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn'...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Even war can be silent
TANICA S HALL Sunlight is painting.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It's much more than painting. Actually (any) painting is much more of an embellishment.
GREG BILLING You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is gr...
CHUCK CLOSE It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had e...
JASON NEWSTED A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting.
IAN CHAPPELL Behind every painting is a secret and inexplicable desire. Behind mine is this:
I want to make a ...
CLAYTON F. MERRELL Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meanin...
SALIL JHA One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terro...
BENJAMIN HAYDON A painting that is well composed is half finished.
PIERRE BONNARD You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting i...
CHUCK CLOSE ...the trouble with poetry is
that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

BILLY COLLINS My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of...
ERIC FISCHL Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
MARCEL DUCHAMP I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than ...
JAMES FRANCO Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itse...
WILLIAM BAZIOTES Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itsel...
WILLIAM BAZIOTES All gardening is landscape painting.
WILLIAM KENT Painting is a messy business.
MARIA BROPHY It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure ...
JACKSON POLLOCK Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law o...
BANKSY Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
MICHELANGELO Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
THOMAS GRAY If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
ROBERT GRAVES There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
ROBERT GRAVES Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
LEONARDO DAVINCI I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exp...
MARK STRAND One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of wor...
EDWARD HIRSCH Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure scie...
SHAUN TAN Painting is saying 'Ta' to God.
SIR STANLEY SPENCER Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.
REMBRANDT Every song is like a painting.
DICK DALE There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
RICHARD DAWKINS The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the ...
ELLEN HOPKINS Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poe...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and pros...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history...
ARISTOTLE Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meani...
BRYANT MCGILL The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and pa...
COLM TOIBIN Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
MARIANNE MOORE Poetry is all nouns and verbs
MARIANNE MOORE It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
JEFF MELVOIN Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
BLAISE PASCAL Painting is by nature a luminous language.
ROBERT DELAUNAY Wine pricing is an art - like painting.
JOE BASTIANICH Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of respo...
J.M. COETZEE Language is fossil poetry.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Wine is bottled poetry.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Language is fossil poetry
RALPH WALDO EMERSON True poetry is embarrassing.
JULIEN TORMA Only poetry inspires poetry.
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